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Lathe

Spins a profile around to make anything round.

revolve, turn, spin, bottle, bowl, vase, dome, washer, column
Category
Emitters
Outputs
mesh
Runs live in
no target yet

Bottles, bowls, columns, domes, wheels. Draw the outline once and it revolves into a surface.

The useful trick is that the outline's distance from the axis is a radius, so a profile that starts away from the axis leaves a hole down the middle, already round and already clean. A washer, a flange, a grommet or a porthole needs no cutting.

Stopping short of a full turn leaves it open, which is how you get an arch barrel or a niche.

Inputs

SocketTypeWiring
profilegeometry

Parameters

NameTypeDefaultAvailable whenWhat it does
Segmentsnumber24always
Stationsnumber12always
Phi Startnumber0always
Phi Lengthnumber360always
Double Sidedcheckboxoffalways

Built with this node

  • Make shapesHow-to
  • Spin an Outline into a Solidteaches this

See also

  • loftWhen the section travels along a path rather than around an axis.
  • solidifyTo give a lathed shell real thickness.

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